The Spey Viaduct, an iron girder railway bridge near Garmouth. Construction began in 1882.
This week, on the 14th of December 2025, a section of the Spey Viaduct collapsed.
I have made this short film. It is for Bob.
To play this short film please click here.
Credits: Piano Theme by Badly Drawn Boy; A cover of Annie Lennox’s ‘No more I love You’s’; Ray Stanford screen print of Spey Viaduct [Aberdeen Royal Infirmary]; You Tube films of the Spey Viaduct by a number of gifted photographers and artists. Thank you all. If I have missed any credits please let me know.
The following images of construction work are from Aberdeen Archives:
26 March 1884, Banffshire Advertiser:
31 July 1884, Banffshire Advertiser:
14 March 1885, Press & Journal:
22 September 1885, Banffshire Advertiser:
23 April 1886, Press & Journal:
27 April 1886, Banffshire Advertiser:
1903, Ordnance Survey map:
Summer 1967, Bob fae Garmouth, aged 90 years
29 February 1968, Banffshire Advertiser:
18 December 1970, Press & Journal:
1 March 1980, Northern Scot and Moray, Nairn Express:
17 June 1983:
Thank you, again, for this.